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“Some Democratic senators are calling for an investigation after learning Congress wasn’t briefed about an covert CIA counterterrorism program allegedly ordered to be kept secret by former Vice President Dick Cheney.

CIA Director Leon Panetta briefed Congress about the still classified program on June 24, a day after learning about it and immediately canceling it. Intelligence sources noted that the program never got off the ground and wasn’t instituted.

Nonetheless, Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, the head of the Senate Intelligence Committee, told “FOX News Sunday” that Congress should have been informed about the eight-year program sooner so that it could have oversight of the spy agency’s actions.

“This is a big problem, because the law is very clear,” Feinstein said. “And I understand the need of the day, which was when America was in shock, when we had been hit in a way we’d never contemplated, where we had massive loss of life, where there was a major effort to be able to respond.

“I think you weaken your case when you go outside of the law. And I think that if the Intelligence Committees had been briefed, they could have watched the program. They could have asked for regular reports on the program. They could have made judgments about the program as it went along. That was not the case because we were kept in the dark. That’s something that should never, ever happen again,” Feinstein added.

Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, the No. 2 Democrat in the Senate, called the failure to inform Congress “illegal.”

“We have a system of checks and balances. There is accountability in our Constitution. The executive branch can not create these kind of programs … and leave Congress in the dark. (It) is not only inappropriate, it is illegal.”

No DICK, what is ILLEGAL is leaking sensitive information to the press such as the black ops CIA satellite program in December of 2005. That leak, conspired with Senator Jay Rockefeller placed operatives world-wide in jeopardy.

Throughout Bush’s terms in office Durbin, Rockefeller, Feinstein, Schumer, and other Democrats continually leaked whatever info they came across to their buddies in the media. Rockefeller you’ll remember performed the greatest treason – by his own admission – by going to our enemies in 2002 and telegraphing our intentions in the War on Terror.

The more I think about it the more I agree that we should have – even though I don’t believe it will happen – probes into the programs behind the War on Terror. For in bringing this to the nation we can also review the conduct of these traitors who just for political expediency sold out the security of this country.

That Dick Cheney decided – which was in his authority to do – to withhold information from this den of sieves is perfectly understandable, and indeed was in the best interest of of the United States of America.